1.   An essence of pro coaching today is selecting players who are confident enough in their own stature to take a back seat to superstars who engulf them.

2.   Another plan is a straight dispersal draft allowing teams in reverse order of their record to select players from both teams and farm systems.

3.   As for Travieso and Padilla, both will continue to work out in hopes of seeing a UMass player selected in the NBA draft for the third consecutive season.

4.   At that time baseball had a compensation pool from which a team would select a player after losing a free agent.

5.   After having a player selected in the first round, each team will protect three more players.

6.   After each team has a player selected in the first round, they will protect three more players.

7.   During the draft, each time a player is selected the team from which that player came can reclaim one of its other players from the draft list.

8.   Eighty-one players were selected.

9.   Every spring, every team selects the players it wants.

10.   Expansion teams have generally elected not to select big-ticket players unless they can be used as trading pawns.